Reports: Marco Rubio selling Florida home

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) - who boasted in his State of the Union response that he still lives in the working class neighborhood where he was raised - might be movin’ on up.

The possible 2016 presidential contender has listed his West Miami, Fla., home for $675,000 and is reportedly looking to move his wife Jeanette Dousdebes Rubio and their school-aged children into the Washington area, ABC News reported Wednesday.

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Marco Rubio delivers Republican rebuttal

Rubio can't stand the heat during GOP rebuttal

According to online real estate listings, the Rubios put the four-bedroom, 2,700-square-foot house on sale last fall, Rubio still mentioned his current Miami home during his delivery of the GOP’s rebuttal to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address.

“Mr. President, I still live in the same working class neighborhood I grew up in. My neighbors aren’t millionaires. They’re retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicare,” Rubio said in the speech.

He continued: “They’re workers who have to get up early tomorrow morning and go to work to pay the bills. They’re immigrants, who came here because they were stuck in poverty in countries where the government dominated the economy.”

The Miami Herald reported in January that the Rubios purchased the home in 2005 for $550,000.

ABC News quoted a Rubio aide saying that the Rubio’s move to Washington has not been “finalized” and noted that Rubio is currently away from his children during the week.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow criticized Rubio for referencing his Miami home in the speech when he knew he is looking to move.

After mimicking Rubio’s speech, she said it’s become a “political punch-line.”

“That bit is transformed from political scene-setting into political punch-line once everybody links to the pictures in the real estate listings showing Marco Rubio is in fact selling that middle class home in that middle class Miami neighborhood.”

She added: “So you know, you may love your neighbors, but why would you brag about that love for your neighbors in your middle class neighborhood in the highest-profile speech you will ever give in your life when you’re also on record trying to move away from those neighbors in that neighborhood so you can go live in Washing, D.C.?”